While a yen for electric vehicles has been tugging recently at the fancy of the general public, Bouty Baldridge’s cravings reached critical mass years ago.<br>”It’s the Bouty EV museum,” said Stacy Smaltz, wife of Baldridge, the Electric Auto Association Coastal Carolinas Wilmington chapter organizer. “We have our own fleet.”

Sept. 22, 1933: A sharp lookout was being kept for five prisoners who escaped near Burgaw when a large tree they were cutting down fell, screening them from a guard. A posse headed by J.H. Loftin, superintendent of the Burgaw prison camp, hunted through the night for the men with no results. The men were in the charge of guard Pender Edens and…